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oscuro

noun

oscuro is spelled O-S-C-U-R-O: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, oscuro means “A cigar made with very dark tobacco” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of oscuro is oscuros.

How many letters and syllables are in oscuro?

Letters6: O-S-C-U-R-O
In writingabout once in every 34 million words; the 178,202nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is oscuro?

Oscuro appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of oscuro

  • oscuros plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does oscuro mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A cigar made with very dark tobacco.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does oscuro come from?

Borrowed from Spanish oscuro (“dark”). Doublet of obscure.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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